FOURTH SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN MANLIUS

Town of Manlius

Submitted by Kathy Crowell

Miscellaneous Records, Onondaga County Courthouse (F,260):

We the subscribers do certify that at a meeting in the town of Manlius
County of Onondaga on the fifth day of Nov. in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & thirty two of the male persons of full age
being members & friends of the Methodist Episcopal Church held in pursuance
of public notice given two successive sabbaths or meeting days, & at
least fifteen days before the time of meeting for the purpose of incorporating
themselves according to the act to provide for the incorporation of religious
societies Joseph C. Green & Hiram C. Snow two of the members of said
Society were duly chosen to preside at the said meeting and that Egbert
Colman & Moses Chapman first class, Abraham Van Schaick & Darius
Sweet second class and Cornelius Cool third class were duly elected Trustees
of the society to be incorporated. And it was resolved by the sd.
meeting that the society to be incorporated should be called and known
by the name or title of the Fourth Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Manlius. And we do further certify under our hands and seals that
the above mentioned proceedings were had in our presents, Joseph C. Green,
Hiram C. Snow, Darius T. Sweet. State of New York Onondaga County
ss: I certify that on the fifth day of March 1833 personally appeared
before me Darius T. Sweet to me known & who bring by me duly sworn
made oath & said that he resides in the town of Pompey in said county
& that he is personally acquainted with Joseph C. Green & Hiram
C. Snow & knows them to be the same persons described in & who
executed the within certificate or instrument in writing & they both
of them acknowledged & admitted to said Sweet that they freely executed
the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned & that he the
said Darius T. Sweet subscribed his name thereto at the request of the
said Joseph C. Green & Hiram C. Snow as a subscribing witness I allow
the same to be recorded. John Watson First Judge of Onondaga
County. Recorded the 5th day of March 1833. A. Edward Jr.
Dep. Clk.